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Sweden’s Ambassador to Hungary has been summoned to the Foreign Ministry over recent statements made by Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson, which the Hungarian government rejects in the strongest terms, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó said in Budapest.
The politician noted during a break in the government meeting that “the Brussels and European liberals cannot cope” with the election results in Georgia.
The Georgian people decided, “and they did not elect a liberal party, but a conservative, sovereignist, pro-peace and pro-family political force, this time again with more than 50 percent support,” Minister Szijjártó underlined.
They cannot digest this in Brussels, they cannot digest this in the liberal mainstream, hence they are trying in every way to create confusion, to question the results of the Georgian elections,”
he added.
He also said that Prime Minister Viktor Orbán’s visit to Georgia had been “met with all kinds of criticism, often ridiculous, sometimes pathetic, and sometimes divorced from reality.” “When the prime minister of another country, and one that is a multiple ally, an EU and NATO member state, questions whose position and whose interests the Hungarian Prime Minister represents, that is crossing a line, and we must speak out,” he stressed.
Péter Szijjártó reported that the Swedish Prime Minister had said the previous day that his Hungarian counterpart had probably acted in Russia’s interests when visiting Tbilisi, Georgia after the elections.
He does not speak for Europe’s countries, he does not speak for Sweden, he possibly speaks for Russia, but he does not speak for us others,”
the Swedish politician emphasized. “This is an allegation that we must challenge and reject in the strongest possible terms. We will not tolerate, condone, or accept anyone questioning the fact that we represent our own interests, the Hungarian national interest and the Hungarian position,” the Hungarian Minister confirmed.
The Minister explained that the Swedish ambassador to Hungary had been summoned to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade on Tuesday afternoon and asked that his country’s leading politicians refrain from making such statements in future.
It was not the first time that the Swedish Prime Minister criticized Viktor Orbán’s visit abroad. In early July, for example, he called the Hungarian politician’s trip to Moscow an insult to the Ukrainian people.
Via MTI; Featured image via MTI/Miniszterelnöki Sajtóiroda/Fischer Zoltán
